quicksilver in English

noun
1
the liquid metal mercury.
Mercury has long been known also by the name quicksilver , because it is a silver liquid.

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1. Mirrors have a backing of quicksilver.

2. His mood changed like quicksilver.

3. Quicksilver , though a metal, is a liquid.

4. It was like watching quicksilver in motion.

5. His eyes had lost their quicksilver fear.

6. The essential Gielgud was all quicksilver intelligence.

7. By heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines.

8. Mercury ( quicksilver ): Metallic chemical element, chemical symbol Hg, atomic number

9. Whenever that happened, a quicksilver feeling went skidding through her bloodstream.

10. The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver.

11. Like spilt quicksilver, hoarse growls rolled over the lurid weeds like thunders.

12. Hunt, the team's quicksilver guard, slipped in and made the basket.

13. It is the quicksilver panacea for weakness - the quintessence of a dedicated existence.

14. Beckett's playing is all quicksilver and lyricism with an often sardonic edge.

15. In private his quicksilver manner can charm colleagues or just as quickly destroy them.

16. Her quicksilver nature had been a constant concern to her parents in the past.

17. 23 It is the quicksilver panacea for weakness - the quintessence of a dedicated existence.

18. Le is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and It'stays.

19. It's quicksilver, and as far as I can tell there's no surefire recipe for it.

20. Presumably, Barbarus was just minding his own business in The Savage Land, when zombified Quicksilver

21. Theirs was the only boat afloat on this endless expanse of water like rippling quicksilver.

22. Just for Love is the fourth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

23. In fact, its core is crystal, shining night and day, veined with quicksilver and gold.

24. 16 Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver.

25. Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver.

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27. Synonyms for Constantly changing include ever-changing, continuously changing, ever-shifting, changeable, erratic, fluctuating, capricious, mercurial, quicksilver and unstable

28. It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and, apart from that, the box was only just long enough to take it.

29. Methylmercury is a form of mercury – the metal which is liquid at room temperature and is better known as quicksilver.

30. Bustamente furnace definition is - a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores that has Aludels for condensing the vapors —called also aludel furnace.

31. Blackthorn is a handsomely mounted film, with many an awesome vista and rolling plain, but compared to the quicksilver brilliance of its predecessors, it comes off as irredeemably minor.

32. Boston Adventureis a perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society and a quicksilver portrait of a young woman trying to navigate a singular transit between very different worlds

33. Whether we are talking about Microsoft programmes, the Adobe programmes or “classics” such as Interleaf/Quicksilver, Ventura or Quark Xpress, our employees have been working with these programmes for many years.

34. O, the most Affablest creature, sir! so merry! So pleasant! she'll mount you up, like quicksilver, Over the helm; and circulate like oil, A very vegetal: discourse of state, Of mathematics, bawdry, any thing--

35. O, the most Affablest creature, sir! so merry! So pleasant! she'll mount you up, like quicksilver, Over the helm; and circulate like oil, A very vegetal: discourse of state, Of mathematics, bawdry, any thing --MAM

36. O, the most Affablest creature, sir! so merry! So pleasant! She’ll mount you up, like quicksilver, Over the helm; and circulate like oil, A very vegetal: discourse of state, 340: Of mathematics, bawdry, anything—— MAM

37. Crystal Mountain Hotels offers three slope side lodging properties at Crystal Mountain: The Alpine Inn, The Village Inn and the Quicksilver Lodge along with the fabulous Alpine Inn Restaurant and legendary Snorting Elk Cellar & Deli

38. For instance, I have “g” associated to a Google quicksearch, so I can activate Quicksilver, press-hold “g” (for a very brief time, really) and I’ll be ported to the third pane, ready to type my query.

39. Calomel black lotion , blackwash - a mixture of Calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores atomic number 80 , Hg , hydrargyrum , mercury , quicksilver - a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

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41. Ripley made his Accurtation with Quicksilver precipitated with Gold and imbibition with corrosive water, which I like not, because the Elixir so made will be the greatest poison, as himself confesseth that it were better for a man to eat the eyes of a Basilisk than taste that Elixir.

42. (noun) Considerable quantities of the following minerals have been found: Barytes (heavy spar), magnetite (magnetic iron ore), and pyrolusite (manganese dioxide) in Humboldt county; roofing slate in Esmeralda county; cinnabar (ore containing quicksilver) in Washoe county; haematite in Elko and Churchill counties; cerussite and galena (lead ores) in Eureka county

43. ‘The mineraloid is usually found in the ore Cinnabar, where it must go through a heating and condensing process to be obtained.’ ‘The trail once led from the Cinnabar or quicksilver mines of Mount St Helena to the port of San Pablo.’ ‘Mercury is a persistent heavy metal, processed into a liquid from mined Cinnabar.’

44. Hustvedt rarely Belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley." What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men